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angels and of Angles. We were orphans who had lost their 
father. The mother Church was mourning, and her children 
were not lamenting. She sought for some to comfort her, 
yet found she none. She was weeping, and her children 
were glad, "The Lady of Nations sate in sorrow; she was 
the scoru of her friends, The brethren mingled their bread 
with tears, but they kept silence. Had not light risen upon 
us from on high, we had been lost for ever. Praised be Hu 
who Iooked upon us in the day of our afliction! AN gener- 
ations shall now call us blessed. When the martyr was slain 
Dur voung ınen saw visions, our old men dreamed dreams; 
and then came the miracles, and we knew that God had 
exalted the horn of his anointed one, 
The sheecp were scattered ; the hirelings had fled. "There 
had not been found a man who would stand beside the lord 
of Canterbury against the workers of iniquity. The second 
part of Christendom had gone astray after the idol Baal, the 
apostate, the antipope. Who oan say what the end might 
not have been? In the blood of the martyr of Canterbury 
the Most High provided an expiation for the sins of the 
world. "The darkness passed away before the splendour of 
the miracles. The seed of the word sprang up. Unnumbered 
sinners are converted daily, and beat their breasts and turn 
back into the fold. Our anointed Gideon had his lamp in a 
pitcher ; the clay of ihe earthly body was broken, and light 
shone out. "This is the light by which at the beginning of 
the schism the Western Church rejected Octavian ad close 
Alexander for her shepherd. If Alexander had not been our 
true father, the martyr who adhered to him would have been 
defiled by the pitch which he had touched. His miracles 
prove that he had not been defiled, No man could do such 
wonders unless God was with him,